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Anonymous wrote:It doesn’t make sense to lower the ceiling. Why not raise the floor? Wealthy parents are going to send money and supplies to their kids teachers, and that is fine and normal. Most would also send in extra to share with a lower resourced school. But, I’m not going to be cheap with my donation to my own kid’s school for equity reasons. That is the problem with county-wide schools. In the Northeast, you have smaller town-based schools and they are so much easier to manage. MCPS has too many kids, too many schools, and too many disparate interests. It just doesn’t function well because it is so big.

Why do folks keep saying this. Schools in the NE town based systems that do not have wealthy or high UC bases suffer just the same as schools in county based systems.

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Anonymous wrote:MCCPTA will help ANY school find a sister school to help with funding.

There is a FB page right now devoted to MCPS teachers asking for what they need for their classrooms (with Amazon links) and parents across the county are buying items for schools across the county.

Boosters at HSs (we are not at Whitman but have a booster) support the kids activities. So the soccer team asks for new goals, the theatre program new lights, etc. Yes, funded by parents. These kids probably also play club soccer and take classes at Imagination Stage, or Adventure Theatre. Should they not do that since not everyone can afford those activities either?

Life isn't fair, I drive a 14 year old car and would prefer not to, but it is what it is. There are lots of ways for schools and individual teachers to get help and assistance, they just have to ask

NP. So a GoFundMe for teaching supplies, in one of the richest counties in the country.

Instead, why not reroute a percentage of PTA donations to a common pool that's then divided across all county schools?

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Anonymous wrote:. We aren't ALLOWED to ask parents to bring supplies, meanwhile, it is encouraged at other schools.

What? My kids' school supply lists would have glue sticks, Kleenex, paper towels, hand wipes, and more.

I don’t believe that pp.

We were at an ES where the teachers could not ask of anything. I just sent extra stuff regularly. It was the principal not MCPS.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:. We aren't ALLOWED to ask parents to bring supplies, meanwhile, it is encouraged at other schools.

What? My kids' school supply lists would have glue sticks, Kleenex, paper towels, hand wipes, and more.

I don’t believe that pp.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:. We aren't ALLOWED to ask parents to bring supplies, meanwhile, it is encouraged at other schools.

What? My kids' school supply lists would have glue sticks, Kleenex, paper towels, hand wipes, and more.

Anonymous wrote:. We aren't ALLOWED to ask parents to bring supplies, meanwhile, it is encouraged at other schools.

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Anonymous wrote:This thread is exactly why we need the kind of re-districting and bussing that the BOE was analyzing before they scrapped the plan. PTAs at rich schools are always going to do their thing. Rich parents will always find a way to pour whatever money they can into their DC's school. We can only make it more equitable by reallocating these rich families across the county schools so that they begin to enrich the poorer schools too.

1. This is not going to happen.

2. Majority well off people will opt for privates and you will be exactly where you started. Focus on building your own communities.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Our PTA does a lot admittedly but it also does a lot for the poorest school in MCPS from coat drives to fund sharing. Kneecapping the "rich" schools will hurt the poorer ones first.

I work for a focus school in mcps. How do we get the rich PTA gravy train rolling in. Is there any process for matching wealthy PTAs to low income ones?

I have reached out to other pta,s and no response.

I would contact MCCPTA. They may know of specific schools looking for partnerships and can connect you.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This thread is exactly why we need the kind of re-districting and bussing that the BOE was analyzing before they scrapped the plan. PTAs at rich schools are always going to do their thing. Rich parents will always find a way to pour whatever money they can into their DC's school. We can only make it more equitable by reallocating these rich families across the county schools so that they begin to enrich the poorer schools too.

1. This is not going to happen.

2. Majority well off people will opt for privates and you will be exactly where you started. Focus on building your own communities.

Anonymous wrote:This thread is exactly why we need the kind of re-districting and bussing that the BOE was analyzing before they scrapped the plan. PTAs at rich schools are always going to do their thing. Rich parents will always find a way to pour whatever money they can into their DC's school. We can only make it more equitable by reallocating these rich families across the county schools so that they begin to enrich the poorer schools too.

Anonymous wrote:This thread is exactly why we need the kind of re-districting and bussing that the BOE was analyzing before they scrapped the plan. PTAs at rich schools are always going to do their thing. Rich parents will always find a way to pour whatever money they can into their DC's school. We can only make it more equitable by reallocating these rich families across the county schools so that they begin to enrich the poorer schools too.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Our PTA does a lot admittedly but it also does a lot for the poorest school in MCPS from coat drives to fund sharing. Kneecapping the "rich" schools will hurt the poorer ones first.

I work for a focus school in mcps. How do we get the rich PTA gravy train rolling in. Is there any process for matching wealthy PTAs to low income ones?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Our PTA does a lot admittedly but it also does a lot for the poorest school in MCPS from coat drives to fund sharing. Kneecapping the "rich" schools will hurt the poorer ones first.

I work for a focus school in mcps. How do we get the rich PTA gravy train rolling in. Is there any process for matching wealthy PTAs to low income ones?

I have reached out to other pta,s and no response.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Our PTA does a lot admittedly but it also does a lot for the poorest school in MCPS from coat drives to fund sharing. Kneecapping the "rich" schools will hurt the poorer ones first.

I work for a focus school in mcps. How do we get the rich PTA gravy train rolling in. Is there any process for matching wealthy PTAs to low income ones?